To the researchers' surprise, when they compared the sequence for their new protein with those already in the public databases, they discovered that it was actually the major vault protein.

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Benlysta works by targeting a protein called BLISS that came out of HGS' gene databases.

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The databases can--in a single day--test one disease-causing protein against a trillion chemical compounds and rank which ones are most likely to latch onto the protein and gum up its works.

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